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Grandma, A Thousand Times / Stray Bullet

Writers Guild Theater
Beverly Hills, CA

Grandma, A Thousand Times / Stray Bullet
Camera 12 Cinemas
San Jose, CA

Teta, Alf Marra (Grandma, A Thousand Times)
Mahmoud Kaabour
Documentary | UAE, Qatar, Lebanon | 2010 | 48 min.

A poetic, playful documentary commemorating a feisty Beiruti grandmother's many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death. With great intimacy, the film documents Teta Fatima, the 83-year old matriarch of the Kaabour family --sharp-witted queen bee of an old Beiruti quarter -- as she struggles to cope with the silence of her once-buzzing house. Her beloved violinist husband (deceased 20 years) is both an essential absence and presence. His features manifest through the face of their filmmaker grandson while his previously unpublished violin improvisations weave through her world and that of the film.

Rsasa Tayche (Stray Bullet)
Georges Hachem
Feature Film | Lebanon | 2010 | 75 min.

Lebanon, August 1976. Noha is about to enter into a marriage with a man she doesn't love. Her family is relieved to see her take advantage of this last chance before officially becoming a spinster just like her sister. While her overbearing family clucks around making wedding preparations, Noha sneaks off to the woods with her lover, where she witnesses a brutal act that changes her perception of the world forever.On the same evening her elder brother is organizing a dinner in her honor 15 days prior to the wedding, Noha changes her mind.

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